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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-Id: <4347.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1991 12:25:02 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> <4222.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <50207@ut-emx.uucp> <8613@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Jun9.184231.4007@neon.Stanford.EDU> <4300.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun10.175239.642@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.

Quoted from <1991Jun10.175239.642@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):

>   IBM hasn't seem to have made much of Rexx on OS/2 to this point.

    IBM NZ has heard of it, and mentions it when they visit. A potential
    problem is that it involves user control, with the user writing
    ARexx scripts and what-not, whereas presumably this IAC thing is
    app. to app. only. ARexx can be used in a similar manner, of course,
    but this doesn't seem to be the approach taken by Amiga applications
    that handle ARexx.

> interested in licensing some of Apple's system software, while Apple
> is on recor as wanting to make AppleEvents/IAC a platform independent

    Isn't Microsoft on record as wanting Windows to be a platform
    independent thing? Aren't IBM and DEC in some sort of group that is
    on record as wanting Unix as a platform independent standard...? :)

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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